Hospital execs are walking a tightrope over a cost-quality chasm to bring their organizations safely from a world of pay-for-volume to pay-for-value health care.
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I grew up on post at West Point, New York, at the U. S. Military Academy, the daughter of a military doctor. The military is inescapably tied to my childhood. Cadets in uniforms led my Sunday School classes. My Girl Scout troop put flags on graves at the West Point cemetery on Memorial Day. I was used to waving to the armed military police guarded all gates in and out of post. read »
As a small business, we benefit from keeping things, well… small. An affordable payroll, an easy-to-manage yet robust inventory of rare books, and a lean overhead allow us, in a counterintuitive way, to compete with larger firms. There may be only two of us, but pound-for-pound, we believe we are one of the strongest independent book companies out there. read »
Business can be really fun. If you don't believe me, you should have been at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), the video game tradeshow in Los Angeles a few weeks back. While there, I met some really great entrepreneurs who were willing to provide insights on how they've taken ideas, built a team and continue to grow their presence. The entrepreneurs of each company have tremendous insight that will help and inspire any small business. Here they are: read »
Entrepreneur Lars Hard feels he has seen the future of search, information gathering and the web in general, and it is artificial intelligence. Computational intelligence, to put it more succinctly: the ability to gather information or find your destination on the web faster and more efficiently with an artificial search partner that can predict what you want. The number of search engines, the myriad pathways from a user’s inquisitive mind to the answer he or she seeks requires that someone, or some[...] read »
There is an oft-quoted statement from the 19th century moralist and historian Lord Acton that says, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” He was writing to a Bishop Mandell Creighton in the year 1887. The quotation goes on to say, “Great men are almost always bad men." read »
Over the past two decades, my colleagues and I have coached and trained thousands of people to be better managers and leaders. We’ve asked many of them what they consider the most difficult part of being a manager, and almost without exception they’ve replied: giving people corrective feedback. read »
